Cornelius Krommeny
Cornelius Krommeny , also Cornelis , Crommeny , (* in the 16th century, probably in Krommenie ; † 1599 ) was a Dutch painter and court painter in Güstrow .
Life
Not much is known about his life. He probably came from Krommenie, now part of Zaanstad . In 1575 he came to Güstrow and stayed in Mecklenburg until 1598 . In 1574 Duke Ulrich III appointed him . von Mecklenburg-Güstrow to his court painter .
He worked as a portrait painter and made designs for epitaphs. In 1577 he took over the artistic execution of the draft researched by David Chytraeus of a monumental family tree of the Mecklenburg Princely House, which was printed by Jacob Lucius in Rostock and formed the basis for the execution in Güstrow Cathedral .
Works
- Raising Lazarus in the epitaph for Dr. Petrus Galbius (1574), main church Sankt Petri (Hamburg)
- Genealogy of the Mecklenburg dukes (1578), State Main Archive Schwerin
- Portrait of Duchess Elisabeth, Schwerin State Museum
- Altar of the monastery church Rühn (1587)
- Memorial pictures for members of the Mecklenburg ducal house in the Doberaner Münster (1586–1589):
- Duke Ulrich
- Duke Albrecht VII (the handsome)
- Duchess Anna
- Pedigree of Duke Ulrichs von Mecklenburg (1593), State Museum Schwerin
- Family tree of the Pomeranian griffin dukes. (1598), National Museum of Szczecin (Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie).
Ulrich III.
Pomeranian genealogy
Theodor Fischer-Poisson copied the Doberan ducal pictures for the ancestral gallery in Schwerin Castle .
literature
- Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : The painter Cornelius Krommeny. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. 35, 1870, pp. 8-11 ( mvdok.lbmv.de digitalisat).
- Theodor Raspe : Crommeny (Krommony, Cromenei, Krummenei), Cornelius . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 8 : Coutan-Delattre . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 156 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Walter Josephi : Cornelius Krommeny and his Rühner Altar. In: Mecklenburgische Jahrbücher. 95, 1931, pp. 153–162 ( mvdok.lbmv.de digitalisat)
- Grete Grewolls: Who was who in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. The dictionary of persons . Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2011, ISBN 978-3-356-01301-6 , p. 5453 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hamburg Artist Lexicon. Hamburg 1854, p. 38; The architectural and art monuments of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Volume 3, Hamburg 1968, p. 81 and Fig. 78; Figure in the picture index
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krommeny, Cornelius |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Krommeny, Cornelis; Crommeny, Cornelius |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch painter and court painter in Güstrow |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 16th Century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | unsure: Krommenie |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1599 |